Ashley's Forum Posts

  • I still don't think this is the right approach - naturally next there'll need to be inserting at index, deleting at index, appending to end etc. - and that is basically reinventing everything the Array object does.

    For the next release cycle I've added a "split string" action for Array, which can take a string like "1,2,3" and set the array to hold those three elements, and a "join string" expression, which can return a string like "1,2,3" of the array contents again. Then you can use all the existing Array features to set, delete, insert etc. items before returning a string again.

  • Construct has carefully designed memory management features to ensure it can handle large amounts of content. Can you share a project that demonstrates the problem? You can just fill it with dummy content.

    Also are you on a 64-bit system? If you're trying to use >2GB of memory on a 32-bit system you may run in to the limitations of 32-bit memory.

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  • As noted in the manual, you can only request fullscreen in a user input event, like a touch start or a button click.

  • The Audio object has actions to preload and play sounds. Why not use that?

  • There are already lots of examples built in to Construct in the Example Browser. Check the scripting category. For example the Guess the number example uses imports for events.

    The message about using default exports is probably because your import/export syntax is wrong. Some forms of import require the thing being imported to have a default export, and if it doesn't, it won't work. If you don't export a default thing, then you need to use the import { NamedThing } from "./script.js";. This kind of thing will be covered by JavaScript language tutorials, which I strongly recommend you follow if you are not already familiar with JavaScript, as it will save you a lot of pain and confusion like this. In fact our own Learn JavaScript in Construct guide has a section that covers modules in brief - take a look at that.

  • You can upload files to free services like Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox.

    myVar is still undefined in the script block in the event sheet. You need to use an Imports for events script file to import things you want to use in event sheets. See Scripts in event sheets in the manual.

  • But expressions aren't meant to change things - that's what actions are for. I think a one-dimensional array would be better in this case.

  • Use either globalThis or modules (with import/export) - don't try to mix and match both.

    It's difficult to help without seeing the full project - try sharing your project file to get better help.

  • If you run in to any problems using Construct please file an issue following all the guidelines, as we need all that information to be able to help.

  • I don't think this makes sense. What is it returning exactly? Construct does not have an array expression type at the moment. Further, the design of Construct is that expressions are usually read-only and don't actually themselves change things - that's what actions are for.

  • It looks like it's trying to load a developer mode addon that is not available because your local web server stopped responding. Clearing the browser data should remove the addon install.

  • The save format is undocumented and I would strongly advise you do not do anything like this, as it is unsupported and could break at any time. Consider instead saving additional metadata about the save in another place like Local Storage.

  • Do you have any browser extensions installed? If so try disabling them - maybe one is interfering with Construct somehow.

    Otherwise if you think the problem is with Construct, please file an issue following all the guidelines, as we need all the requested information to be able to help.

  • Construct remains primarily a 2D engine. Unsurprisingly when we added some extra 3D features there was a lot of excitement, but also a lot of further requests for things like animated 3D models, 3D lighting and shadows, 3D physics, 3D collisions, 3D features in the editor, etc. etc. If we did all of that, not only would it take years, but we'd essentially be building a full 3D engine. While that might be cool, it would probably amount to building a whole new product. It's important to have focus, and our goal is still to focus on building a 2D product, but with some fun extra 3D additions - for example an otherwise 2D platformer but with a few elements of 3D added in, along the lines of the 3D platforms example.

  • Thanks for the feedback!